Ohio Revised Code|Section 3319.141 | Sick leave.

                                                
Each person who is employed by any board of  education in this state, except for substitutes, adult education  instructors who are scheduled to work the full-time equivalent of  less than one hundred twenty days per school year, or persons who  are employed on an as-needed, seasonal, or intermittent basis,  shall be entitled to fifteen days sick leave with pay, for each  year under contract, which shall be credited at the rate of one  and one-fourth days per month. Teachers and regular nonteaching  school employees, upon approval of the responsible administrative  officer of the school district, may use sick leave for absence due  to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious  disease which could be communicated to others, and for absence due  to illness, injury, or death in the employee's immediate family.  Unused sick leave shall be cumulative up to one hundred twenty  work days, unless more than one hundred twenty days are approved  by the employing board of education. The previously accumulated  sick leave of a person who has been separated from public service,  whether accumulated pursuant to section 124.38 of the Revised Code  or pursuant to this section, shall be placed to the person's  credit upon re-employment in the public service, provided that  such re-employment takes place within ten years of the date of the  last termination from public service. A teacher or nonteaching  school employee who transfers from one public agency to another  shall be credited with the unused balance of the teacher's or  nonteaching employee's accumulated sick leave up to the maximum of  the sick leave accumulation permitted in the public agency to  which the employee transfers. Teachers and nonteaching school  employees who render regular part-time, per diem, or hourly  service shall be entitled to sick leave for the time actually  worked at the same rate as that granted like full-time employees,  calculated in the same manner as the ratio of sick leave granted  to hours of service established by section 124.38 of the Revised  Code. Each board of education may establish regulations for the  entitlement, crediting and use of sick leave by those substitute  teachers employed by such board pursuant to section 3319.10 of the  Revised Code who are not otherwise entitled to sick leave pursuant  to such section. A board of education shall require a teacher or  nonteaching school employee to furnish a written, signed statement  on forms prescribed by such board to justify the use of sick  leave. If medical attention is required, the employee's statement  shall list the name and address of the attending physician and the  dates when the physician was consulted. Nothing in this section  shall be construed to waive the physician-patient privilege  provided by section 2317.02 of the Revised Code. Falsification of  a statement is grounds for suspension or termination of employment  under sections 3311.82, 3319.081, and 3319.16 of the Revised Code.  No sick leave shall be granted or credited to a teacher after the  teacher's retirement or termination of employment. 
Except to the extent used as sick leave, leave granted under  regulations adopted by a board of education pursuant to section  3311.77 or 3319.08 of the Revised Code shall not be charged  against sick leave earned or earnable under this section. Nothing  in this section shall be construed to affect in any other way the  granting of leave pursuant to section 3311.77 or 3319.08 of the  Revised Code and any granting of sick leave pursuant to such  section shall be charged against sick leave accumulated pursuant  to this section.
This section shall not be construed to interfere with any  unused sick leave credit in any agency of government where  attendance records are maintained and credit has been given for  unused sick leave. Unused sick leave accumulated by teachers and  nonteaching school employees under section 124.38 of the Revised  Code shall continue to be credited toward the maximum accumulation  permitted in accordance with this section. Each newly hired  regular nonteaching and each regular nonteaching employee of any  board of education who has exhausted the employee's accumulated  sick leave shall be entitled to an advancement of not less than  five days of sick leave each year, as authorized by rules which  each board shall adopt, to be charged against the sick leave the  employee subsequently accumulates under this section.
This section shall be uniformly administered.